Sentences with phrase «lower east»

The improvements will make Delancey Street safer and better suited to serve the Lower East Side community.»

She and her husband donated to Mr. Silver's campaigns and supported him locally through the Lower East Side Democrats club.

Sheldon Silver was a sorry sight Tuesday as he walked in the drizzle on the Lower East Side with a cup of coffee in hand, a day after being convicted on federal corruption charges.

Anyone who has been involved in the Lower East Side community during almost half a century was aware of the controversy that left a huge parcel of highly valuable land standing idle for far too long.

Silver held immense power in Albany as Assembly speaker for two decades — and yet the average person doesn't even know what his district is (it's the Lower East Side).

He was first elected by a district on the Lower East Side in 1976, rose to speaker of the Assembly in 1994, and has methodically consolidated his control of that half of the State Legislature.

Firefighters are battling to save what's left of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, the historic synagogue at 60 Norfolk St.. You can see and smell the smoke from blocks away on the Lower East Side tonight.

Fair reporting; one difficulty in the hearing that is worthy of mention was that much of the message about immigration in general to the Lower East Side got lost, much like most of the buildings associated with such immigration.

For months, the de Blasio administration has insisted that its top officials knew nothing about deed restrictions that were lifted by a city agency on a nursing home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan — learning of it only in late February, after the building was sold to luxury condominium developers for $ 116 million.

She made last minute campaign stops, alongside local elected officials, at several Lower East Side locations yesterday, including at two senior centers.

They write: The fair is open to all of Lower East Side community and beyond.

NYCHA added that about 85 developments, including 12 on the Lower East Side, will receive cameras and enhanced security features by the end of 2013.

A federal appeals court this morning overturned former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's 2015 conviction on federal corruption charges.

Lower East Side district leader Alice Cancel — the Democratic candidate for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — defended her nomination by a group of insiders close to the fallen pol, and attacked her Working Families Party opponent as a transplant and an interloper.

The new lines are not dramatically different on the Lower East Side but there are some changes you'll want to know about.

Silver, who represents a district that includes Manhattan's Lower East Side, filed the proper documents, which included his income as a private lawyer representing individual clients at the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, the complaint says.

As previously reported the Lower East Side political club, CoDA, decided not to make an endorsement in the 1st District campaign and Lower Manhattan democrats backed Chin.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron and State Assemblywoman Yuh - Line Niou visited a Lower East Side senior center yesterday as part of a campaign to restore funding for NYC senior programs.

The District includes the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Soho, Wall Street and Tribeca.

If the Lower East Side lawmaker were forced out of his post — for now, Assembly Democrats and Mr. de Blasio are sticking by him — a successor would likely wield far less clout than Mr. Silver, the speaker since 1994.

In the letter to Veronique Hakim, president of New York City Transit, he explained, «M14A and M14D bus service is critical to the Lower East Side community.

Several NORCs are located on the Lower East Side.

Friedlander was the outspoken, firebrand Democrat who represented the East Village and Lower East Side in the City Council during some of the area's most turbulent years, from 1974 to 1991, and died at New York University Medical Center on Sun., Oct. 4, 2009, at 95.

Sheldon Silver, who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of the state's most powerful and feared politicians as speaker of the New York Assembly, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison in a case that came to symbolize Albany's culture of graft.

The Lower East Side job covered 25,000 sq. ft and cost around $ 400,000.

After Years of Advocacy, New Sidewalk Installed at Rutgers Houses The Lo - Down: News from the Lower East Side

For all of us way too familiar with the dysfunction and abuse of power over the years and watched community participation dwindle (even our own), it is refreshening to see people like McCarthy and Lower East Side Dwellers stand up for themselves, and two MBP administrations stand up to CB3.

Turnout was lowest in the 7th Congressional District, where incumbent Nydia Velázquez easily swept to victory over term - limited City Councilman Erik Dilan in the district spanning Manhattan's Lower East Side, Brooklyn's Sunset Park, Williamsburg, Carroll Gardens, Bushwick and parts of Queens.

While Velázquez dominated across the Lower East Side, Queens, and Brownstone Brooklyn, she managed to keep pace with Dilan in the Hasidic sections of Williamsburg, where about 40 percent of ballots were cast in her favor, according to early poll return data.

An NYPD officer looks at the glass door broken while cops arrested an OWS demonstrator on the Lower East Side Saturday night.

The campaign to co-name a Lower East Side street corner in honor of the Beastie Boys will get another shot before Community Board 3's transportation committee next month.

UPDATE 8/10: We spoke last night with Paul Newell, a local district leader who ran unsuccessfully for the Lower East Side assembly seat last year.

State elected officials are hoping some good can come from the death of 25 - year - old Stephen Hewett - Brown, who was crushed New Year's Eve in an elevator accident on the Lower East Side.

Not - for - profit law firm, MFY Legal Services, wants a judge to force the state Department of Health to reveal how it approved the Allure Group's purchase of Rivington House, a nursing home for AIDS patients in the Lower East Side and CABS Nursing Home in Brooklyn, papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court reveal.

Mr. Quinn, who is also Ms. Cancel's husband, was a longtime local ally to Mr. Silver and a leader in the Lower East Side Democrats club.

The Lower East Side Democrats and Mr. Silver's Harry Truman Democratic Club played a crucial role in securing the Democratic line for Ms. Cancel in the race for Mr. Silver's old Lower Manhattan territory.

The District includes the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Soho, Tribeca and Wall Street.

The district covers the East Village, Alphabet City, Murray Hill, Kip's Bay, Rose Hill, Gramercy Park, and the Lower East Side.

It is unlikely all of them will be on the ballot at the time of the primary, but of the ones that appeared before us, we should be aware that Rosie Mendez, an attorney, former tenant advocate specializing in housing issues, and District Leader, leads the pack, with the strongest organization and a battery of endorsements by government leaders including Reps. Velázquez & Maloney, Assemblymembers Glick & Sanders, Senators Connor & Krueger, Council Member Christine Quinn and many of the state committee members and district leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the East Side.

There are six major settlement houses on the Lower East Side.

Sheldon Silver WHO: Speaker WHAT: New York State Assembly The gravelly voiced Lower East Side trial lawyer has been demonized as the symbol of cloak - and - dagger government.

Both men are part of a separate investigation by Bharara's office into Allure's sale of a nonprofit nursing home on Manhattan's Lower East side to a luxury condo developer after de Blasio's administration made the unusual decision to lift the deed restriction.

City Council, District 2: The race for the seat currently held by Margarita López on the Lower East Side, the East Village, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay and parts of Murray Hill hotly contested, with as many as 11 candidates.

Squadron, who represents, the Lower East Side, and Wright were joined by members of the tenant association, community leaders, representatives of the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 1 and other labor groups.

NYC First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris was aware of a development scandal in late February — well before Mayor Bill de Blasio — but after a Lower East Side nursing home had been sold for $ 116 million to a condo developer.

The mayor voiced confidence in the commissioner charged with cleaning up the botched approval of a deal that allowed the sale of a formerly protected Lower East Side nursing home to condo builders.

Alice Cancel, the leading candidate to replace former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who lost his seat due to a corruption scandal, called him a «hero» for lavishing pork on his Lower East Side district.

Bob Fredericks: «(B) efore his fall from grace, the Lower East Side native, who never moved out of the old neighborhood, consistently frustrated governors, Big Apple mayors and reform - minded good - government groups with his power plays and mercurial ways.»

With the special election less than a month away, Alice Cancel, 61, a Lower East Side district leader, has not been seen on the campaign trail since former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's allies and political club last month helped hand her the Democratic nomination to replace him.

A developer is applying to demolish part of one of the buildings that made up the former Streit's Matzos factory on the Lower East Side.